"Seattle Storm, if you don't enjoy watching us, you are a sexist, shithead son of a bitch!"

i'm glad to take my girls to Storm games. i'm glad to buy them Sue Bird jerseys. Brendan's comments are, however, absolutely correct. the basketball is painful to watch. the one player they had who can really ball (Lauren Jackson) is out.

and you don't do yourself any favors with the vitriol. it's clear he doesn't have a problem with female athletes, or the Storm, per se.

i am now prepared to be called names.

Women's basketball is painful to watch. They throw up more bricks and airballs than I'd ever imagine. It is shameful to watch a game.

The WNBA simply isn't fully of quality talent. Sure there is 10 players in the entire league that have talent, but basketball is a team game, and honestly I wouldn't waste my time at a game even if the tickets were free.

Many many people feel that way. It has nothing to do with sexism, but rather how I choose to spend my free time watching quality athletic competition.

It just isn't there folks. @5 you can call names all you want, but a fact is a fact.

Werd.

"women's basketball is painful to watch most of the time and they shouldn't be playing in large arenas"

I don't think that the stadium was half empty. And I think the fans more than made up for it. Though I definitely recommend that people fill it up Tuesday.

As an aside, while the teams are great, the refs at Storm games are mind-bogglinly terrible. I don't understand why, but they are consistently clueless.

Unlike women's tennis or soccer, where the lack of athleticism actually makes for a more aesthetically pleasing game, women's basketball is a visibly worse product than the men's version--by far. When you don't have the ability to dunk or power through your opponent, the game shrinks to the level of a mediocre high school team. Nobody will pay money to see the equivalent of a 14-year-old Steve Nash.

Pro sports is about seeing world-class athletes. The WNBA, sadly, is not world-class. The reason the USA women's basketball team won a gold medal is simply because other countries are way more sexist than we are and don't have laws like Title IX to promote women's athletics.

Storm wins and... no jubilant shouts from the bar. A few heads swivel up to the TV and the general reaction is "Oh, that's nice." Their victory parade didn't draw very well either. In a team as championship starved as Seattle, nobody cared.

Bill Simmons had a great question: Take the sports team in question and would the average person rather (a) see that team win it all, or (b) find fifty bucks on the sidewalk. I could see a lot of sports fans bypassing the fifty for a Mariners world series win or a Seahawks superbowl victory. A Storm WNBA championship? Based on the citywide shrug over their last championship, most folks would take the fifty. I know I would.

When I suggested that maybe it's because we don't play pass in the yard everyday, or because there arent a million womens football teams to play in when we are like, 4, he shrugged and said 'nope, not to be sexist, but women are just bad atheletes.'

We are still fighting a battle, and it sucks. I think men forget that in the 1970's (or was it 60s?) women were not allowed to run with the ball in basketball, since they thought it was bad for their health and would possibly faint or have a heart attack.

Also, the Sparks made 31% of their shots, while the Storm made 36% of theirs. That sounds like an ass-ugly game, and it is a typical WNBA stat-line.

All of the women are good athletes, but the GAME is not as aesthetically pleasing as the men's game.

"Lack of athleticism actually makes for a more aesthetically pleasing game"? That's just totally fucked up. If that were the case then no one would watch college sports because compared to pros, the players would seem to "lack athleticism." So what if the women in the WNBA can't play in the NBA? They are still great athletes who deserve more respect than they're getting.

When their shows do sell out, they complain that the crowds of douchebags are ruining what used to be a cool vibe.

If you're a Storm fan you can get tickets for a very reasonable price and have good seats. Awesome! What's wrong with that? Are you really dying to sit behind the same fans that crowd Seahawks games?

In basketball many people actually like men's college ball MORE than the NBA because the style of play is different, whereas there are many high school men's teams in the US that could beat a WNBA team. People watch sports for entertainment, bricks and airballs are not entertaining. I am not a sexist just because I don't enjoy the WNBA.

At the world class level, men throw the javelin around 90m, while women throw it around 70m. It should be added that the men's javelin weights 33% more than the women's.

That isn't to say that women are bad athletes, because that is obviously wrong. But, I don't think it's sexist to observe that men and women are different physically.

In basketball many people actually like men's college ball MORE than the NBA because the style of play is different, whereas there are many high school men's teams in the US that could beat a WNBA team. People watch sports for entertainment, bricks and airballs are not entertaining. I am not a sexist just because I don't enjoy the WNBA.

the vagina on the field is often the quarter back....who is also the team cocksucker

I have tried to go to Storm games several times and just had to leave early. Painful.

But seemingly a good social time for all the ladies and their ladies and their kids ... beware the city will give them money to kep them at Key Arena

Also, maybe they need to advertise a bit ... marketing in sports is big

As far as the WNBA is concerned, America simply does not care about professional soccer or women's athletics. MLS soccer owners understand, and that's why the owners have started building smaller stadiums that can actually sellout--more excitement, higher ticket prices, more advance tickets (i.e. people go to games on shitty days becuase they already bought a ticket), etc. That's all the ealier poster meant about women should play in smaller stadiums. It would help the WNBA immensely.

The Majestics are Seattle's IWFL team. And since you're too retarded to know how to use Google, the IWFL is the Independent Women's Football League.

How you sit there and blast people for being sexist for not enjoying a cut rate sport, while you sit on your high horse and make fun of the developmentally disabled, is pathetic. Chances are, you went to the game cause A: you had nothing else better to do, and B: you thought you could get laid.

Grow up and join the human race you bacon strip fish pot.

Original Monique is making the most sense in this thread. Love how we've reached the "you're a sexist" threshold but not the sexist comment threshold.

I think javelin is a good example because I'm comparing well-trained world class male and female athletes. And, in this case, when taking into account the weight difference of the javelins, men throw about 70% farther than women.

They're the only sports team made of people who actually reside in this area, bout against teams from all over the country, and have also headlined Key Arena once before.

What they have accomplished these last 5 years is nothing short of breath-taking. Half of these women are undeniably world class athletes. Seeing these people skate leaves you with the feeling that roller-derby will be a televised mainstream sport in the very near future.

They may have suffered some humiliating losses this year, but I am hoping they pull together and take back the championship this year. They still have a lot of key players, and plenty of talent. They are the only sports team that has made me proud to be from Seattle.

If you think women can't shoot a basketball, you've probably never seen a storm game, and you probably missed the fact that the Storm hits more of their free throws than the UW men's bball team (which I'm also a fan of). In fact, the Storm have been much more fun to watch than the Huskies or the Sonics in part because they WIN. Also because LJ rocks.

Also: what @49 said.